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Sayantani Dasgupta

Sayantani Dasgupta is the author of two forthcoming essay collections, The House of Nails: Notes on a New Delhi Childhood (Red Bird Press, MN) and Oscillation: Essays on India, America, and the In-Between (Two Sylvias Press, WA). She teaches at the University of Idaho. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Contrary, Gulf Stream, The Toast, and others. She is also the winner of Dukool Magazine’s 2016 creative nonfiction prize for the essay “My Grandfather’s Red Chair,” and is currently at work on a novel.
  • Sayantani Dasgupta

    Goddesses

    I closed my laptop. I thought of words such as “contexts” and “perspectives.” The next morning, I checked out an armload of books from the university library. I had to learn to defend Durga.